Hard border can be avoided with ‘whole load of new technology’

David Davis, the UK’s Brexit minister, said companies would be able to report electronically when crossing between the Republic and the NorthREUTERS

A hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland will be avoided after Brexit through “a whole load of new technology”, Britain’s minister for leaving the European Union has claimed.

David Davis yesterday vowed that the border of the future would have no cameras, booths or customs staff and instead said there was likely to be an “intelligence-led policing system” alongside “customs investigations”.

“It happens now and that’s what will happen in the future”, he added.

When challenged that there were no other borders of the kind in the world, Mr Davis told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One: “We have a whole load of new technology.” He added: “There are ways to do this, you can’t just say ‘we haven’t done it anywhere…

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